tug of war

tug of war

See also: tug-of-war

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Noun

tug of war (plural tugs of war)

1. A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams.
2. (idiomatic) A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute.

Translations

game

Arabic: شَدّ اَلْحَبْل‎ m (šadd al-ḥabl) Basque: sokatira Bulgarian: теглене на въже n (teglene na vǎže) Chinese: Cantonese: 扯大纜, 扯大缆 (ce2 daai6 laam6), 拔河 (bat6 ho4) Mandarin: 拔河 (zh) (báhé) Min Nan: 搝大索 (zh-min-nan) (khiú-tōa-soh, giú-tōa-soh) Danish: trækkamp c Dutch: getouwtrek (nl) n Faroese: togtogan f Finnish: köydenveto (fi) French: tir à la corde (fr) m German: Tauziehen n Hungarian: kötélhúzás (hu) Icelandic: reiptog n Indonesian: tarik tali (id), tarik tambang (id) Italian: tiro alla fune m Japanese: 綱引き (つなひき, tsuna-hiki) Jeju: 줄ᄃᆞᆼ길락 (juldawnggillak) Korean: 줄다리기 (juldarigi) Macedonian: натегање n (nateganje) Malay: tarik tali (ms) Maori: tauronarona, taukumekume Norwegian: Bokmål: dragkamp m Nynorsk: dragkamp m Polish: przeciąganie liny n Portuguese: cabo de guerra m Russian: перетя́гивание кана́та (ru) n (peretjágivanije kanáta) Spanish: tira y afloja f Swedish: dragkamp (sv) c Tagalog: hilahan Thai: ชักเย่อ (th) (chák-gà-yə̂ə) Vietnamese: kéo co (vi)

dispute

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Faroese: togtogan f Finnish: köydenveto (fi) German: Tauziehen n, Gezerre (de) n Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• dig in one's heels